All you ever wanted to know about chatting at Mojoski's

KateyScarlett's Guide To Successful Chatting

Well if you have made it here congratulations! You are doing something right! Kick back and relax and read on. Pay attention there WILL be a quiz following. In no time at all you will be circumnavigating Mojoski's with no trouble at all and YOU will be answering questions like these:

Q: WHY am I nameless?
A:There is a good reason for being nameless...You haven't typed in your name yet. You have two choices. Choice one; type your handle in. Choice two remain nameless. I assume you don't like to be TOTALLY anonymous and so I would strongly recommend the first option. There is a box under the send box that says oddly enough: Handle. This would be where you type whatever it is you prefer to be acknowledged by.

Q: WOW! Look at all those pretty pictures! How do I get my own picture?
A: Well you need to either have a picture of your own uploaded to a server of your choice or find one somewhere on the net. In either case if you have one/find one postition your mouse over said picture and RIGHT click. It should say copy image location in Netscape and something similar in Microsoft Internet Explorer. When you get down to the place directly to the right of the HANDLE box that says Picture: right click once again and select paste. The alternative is typing it in and you run the risk of not typing it in right, but the choice is yours. To be considerate of other chatters please keep them under 20K.

Q: What are those letters besides my nameless place? I mean handle...
Those letters are a way to identify who you are to the general chatting public. Without exposing your IP numbers to nasty, ruthless, low down hackers. While it is true your letters can and do change depending on your servers whim, for the most part they remain the same.

Q:Why is there a read AND a send button and what's the difference?
A:Although there technically is no "lurking" at Mojos, (lurking can be best defined as not being seen while not posting) you can hit read to get more messages to um READ. Send is for the times (which should equal the reads) in which you actually type something in the send box and SEND it out to others for thier perusal and chatting pleasure.

Q: Hey how did THAT guy do those BIG RED letters?
A: The most amazing thing happens when you check the little box called USE JS HTML editor and press READ or SEND! When you get your screen reloaded you will have a handy dandy, easy to use and fun to operate working HTML editor. Many HTML commands work in this site with or without the editor. But not all... You will never see the ever annoying always tacky blink command at THIS site and for this we are deeply grateful.

Q: If that JS HTML editor does THAT...what does the JS messages thing do?
A: Welllll that will float any private messages you get in a seperate window...( I am not sure WHY anyone would actually WANT to use this feature but it is there for your consideration and chatting pleasure.

Q: PRIVATE MESSAGES??? You mean we can do PRIVATE messages here?
A: Yeppers, you sure can! AND you don't even have to be able to SPELL the handle! oh...remember when I said you can't use blink? I can :~) There is a handy dandy drop down menu that will give the list of the current selection of chatters you can send messages to. Select the chatter of your choice and type and send as desired. The default will return to ALL when you screen reloads so if you desire repeat PMs be warned...if you aren't careful you might be sending to EVERYONE...

Q: WAIT! WAIT! WAIT! I missed something! Now what?
A: There IS a way to go back and read old messages...enter a number up to 200 in the scroll back and press back and voila old messages are reborn just for you...so you can see what everyone said about you when you were gone..

Q: Hey those little boxes next to everyones names look cool what do they do?
A: Unless you like chatting to yourself I wouldn't click those boxes. They are IGNORE. If you click someones box you will not see them and its very hard to carry on a decent conversation this way. This is very useful when someone is acting like a jerk!

Q: I tried to get into some of the rooms at the bottom and get a screen that says user ID and password and I can't get in! A: Yes, thats right some rooms at Mojoski's are password protected and you can't get thier without the permission of the rooms namesake. You'll need to ask Cougar to get into his room.

Q: So where is this quiz anyway?
A: I lied. There IS no quiz I just wanted you to pay attention...come back to this page as you have questions and use the envelope icon to mail me for more chatting tips and questions. Good luck and happy chatting!